CU Converter

Extract text from CUDA source files (CU)


Drop or upload your .CU file
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How to extract text from your CU file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your CU file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert CU to another file type

To convert CU CUDA files to another format, you need NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit or other Developer software.

Convert a file to CU

To convert other file formats to the "Source Code File" file type, you need software like NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit or a similar tool.


About CU files

A .cu file is a source code file written for the NVIDIA CUDA platform, allowing developers to execute parallel programming tasks directly on the GPU. These files contain standard C or C++ code extended with CUDA-specific keywords (like __global__ or kernel launch syntax <<<...>>>). While powerful for high-performance computing, .cu files introduce significant friction for non-developers or those without specific hardware: they are strictly text-based source files, meaning you cannot "run" them like an executable without compiling them first using the massive NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit and the NVCC compiler. Furthermore, standard C++ compilers often reject them due to the proprietary syntax, creating a lock-in to NVIDIA hardware environments. For documentation, sharing, or archiving code without requiring the recipient to install an IDE like Visual Studio, it is highly recommended to convert .cu files to PDF (to preserve syntax formatting and layout) or standard TXT (for universal compatibility). To port logic to non-GPU environments, developers often manually refactor these into standard CPP files.

Convert.Guru analyzes your CU file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PNG, LSP, BMS, HX, CC and L files.


FAQ

If you want to convert CU file to CC, L, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit or similar software from the "GPU Parallel Programming Source" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to CU, try NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit or another comparable tool in the "GPU Parallel Programming Source" category.



The CU Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our CU converter.